11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)In there verses we have an account of the great things which God did for the Jewish nation in raising them up by degrees to be very considerable. 1. God saved them from the ruin they were upon the brink of in Egypt (Ezek. 16:6): “ When I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thy own blood , loathed and abandoned, and appointed to die, as sheep for the slaughter , then I said unto thee, Live . I…
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